On 16th March we hosted a Sake and Sherry night in Richmond at The Old Ship. Much fun was had by all. In total we tasted 6 sake and 5 sherries, making for a very merry evening. Sarah Wedgbury talked us through the delights of the Japanese rice wines, while our very own David Swaddle's session swigged through sherry.

We've also been running a few tastings for Sainsbury's and we're continuing these with an Italian tasting to be confirmed soon. It's nice to do run these consumer tastings as they ...
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Well, I've managed to pass my WSET Educator course, so it's full-steam ahead to finish the course. Our Approved Programme Provider (APP) application is almost finished processing, so we are set to enrol the first students in January, but we should be selling tickets for the course before Christmas!

Hurrah,

David
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The script and instructional design is finally finished for New Zealand, plus we've got bits in from our AWE friends for Australia and Riesling. It's all coming together, even if there is still loads to do.

Progress is rapid. We'll have a good chunk of the course to show people soon and we're still on for an end of November launch.

David
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We've been developing our wine eLearning course since late last year. Progress has really been full-steam for the last few months and we're finally pulling everything in to shape.

Seeing as we're in to doing things properly, we've been doing loads of user testing. First, we showed it to people at The Bar Show, gauging general interest. After a few tweaks and adjustments we then ran the course past half-a-dozen users for some informal user testing. Finally, we ran a formal heuristic evaluation ...
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